{"product_id":"2000-years-of-mayan-literature-paperback","title":"2000 Years of Mayan Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDennis Tedlock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock-ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author-draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronologically. He establishes that women were among the ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of gods. \u003ci\u003e2000 Years of Mayan Literature \u003c\/i\u003e expands our understanding and appreciation not only of Mayan literature but of indigenous American literature in its entirety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever before has anyone focused so successfully on the literary genius of these ancient authors. Tedlock is so much more than a translator, placing selected Mayan works in a continuous narrative that skillfully links authors from the third century to the sixteenth century with writers of today. An extremely important, original, and innovative work.--Martha J. Macri, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs\u003c\/i\u003e, Volumes 1 and 2, and Director of the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project, University of California, Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning recreation of the intellectual world of the ancient Maya, the only fully literate people of pre-Columbian America. Informed by the latest research on Maya hieroglyphic writing, art, and mythology, this beautifully illustrated and wonderfully readable work by an outstanding scholar should be on the bookshelf of all those interested in this fascinating civilization.\"--Michael Coe, author of \u003ci\u003eBreaking the Maya Code\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is, like the ancient Maya texts and images it explores, a work of art.\"--David Freidel, co-author (with Linda Schele and Joy Parker) of \u003ci\u003eMaya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Literally breathtaking. A truly unprecedented gathering and translation of written Mayan texts. Tedlock is making visible, for the first time, a Mayan literature in comprehensible, meaningful form.\"\"--Jerome Rothenberg, poet, author\/editor of \u003ci\u003eTechnicians of the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoems for the Millennium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis Tedlock\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor and Endowed McNulty Chair of English and Research Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. He won the PEN Translation Prize for \u003ci\u003ePopol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings.\u003c\/i\u003e For his other books he has received awards from the American Folklore Society, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, and the Association of American Publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.14 x 9.74 x 7.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390906163302,"sku":"9780520271371","price":66.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/R0JsVi9PN0Z1bHFOd2VOWU1tNS9nUT09.webp?v=1775123426","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/2000-years-of-mayan-literature-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}